41 fantastic short stories from Britain's leading crime writers
With this year's anthology of the most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK, Jakubowski has succeeded once again in unearthing the very best tales of noir and mystery. There are terrible crimes, puzzles to solve and twists in the tale, but, above all, there are plenty of wonderful, gripping stories to shock and delight.
Contributors include Simon Kernick, Val McDermid, Alexander McCall Smith, John Lawton, Lee Child, Stephen Gallagher, Christopher Fowler, Peter Lovesey, David Hewson and Tim Willocks, whose inclusion was long overdue. Also new to the series are the wonderful Will Carver, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Rhodes, Rhys Hughes, making a rare foray from fantasy into crime, Paul Charles, Howard Linskey, Peter Guttridge, with the winner of the 2013 Graham Greene Festival story award, and two popular children's authors, Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith, in criminal mode.

MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI is a London-based novelist and editor. He was born in the UK and educated in France. Following a career in book publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in London in 1988. He compiles two acclaimed annual series for the Mammoth list: Best New Erotica and Best British Crime. He is a winner of the Anthony and the Karel Awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival. His latest thriller is I Was Waiting for You.